SharePoint MSDN Forums and SharePoint Community Trends

July 24, 2008 · Posted by Jeremy Thake
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I'm really impressed with the new forums that have been migrated to MSDN Forums v3.0, changes are listed here. One thing to note is the "proposed answer" functionality which I think will help people mark answers easier than the last interface. Of interest was the fact that the SharePoint topics balance between Answered and Unanswered Threads. Take these examples:

InfoPath - Answered: 252 Unanswered: 1217 = 17%

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BDC - Answered: 0 Unanswered: 530 = 0%

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Workflow - Answered: 548  Unanswered: 1705 = 24%

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Search - Answered: 305  Unanswered: 937 = 24%image

You get the general picture. These are key areas of MOSS Platform and I think it shows the immaturity of the community in these spaces compared to things such as:

Excel Services - Answered: 230  Unanswered: 194 = 54%

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Maybe this is an indication of where the most activity is happening in the SharePoint Pillars...

In terms of custom development, there also appears to be a lot happening in this space.

SharePoint Development - Answered: 4701  Unanswered: 2451 = 65%

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As apposed to this section that I'm assuming is about OOTB functionality:

SharePoint Design and Customization - Answered: 4103  Unanswered: 12270 = 25%

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I encourage everyone involved in SharePoint to help out where they can. We've all been there and Google'd our way out of trouble by finding forum posts or blog posts on the subjects causing us grief!

I'm currently on level one in the medal talleys but want a full collection pretty soon...which will hopefully lead me to MVP status in SharePoint ;-)

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2 responses so far


  • Friday, 25 Jul 2008 12:31 by Chris Slemp
    Jeremy, thanks for noticing some of the features we built into this new platform to encourage answers. You wouldn't happen to be going to TechEd in Sydney? I'll be there...
  • Saturday, 26 Jul 2008 08:07 by Jeremy Thake
    Unfortunately at this stage I haven't been approved to go. I really want to though. Best way to network and to learn about new Microsoft technology.

 

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